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2014: Google buys DeepMind for $400M. 2025: OpenAI drops $6.5B on Jony Ive. Meta flexes harder—$15B for Alexandr Wang. This ain’t M&A. This is war. The AI race has upgraded. Not about models. Not about chips. It's about 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. Visionaries. Power builders. Cultural symbols. → Google bet on brains early with Demis Hassabis. → OpenAI just secured design royalty. → Meta? They bought the king of data pipelines. These aren’t acquisitions. These are 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬. Each move says: “We’re not building products. We’re shaping the future.” So here's the trillion-dollar question— 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴? And more importantly… 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭?